I've been a bit absent recently - I didn't have a day off all February with the one positive result being my boss seeming to approve of me. Sometimes I wish I could have that kind of crazy work ethic all the time, but then I remember things like actually having a life. All work and no play is most definitely not my kind of thing, and to make up for it, the last few days have been made of awesome:

♥ I stole a fleshdress for squee and shopping and bought some lovely shoes with multi-coloured hearts on them. They may be for children, but I maintain that they wouldn't make them in my size if they didn't want me to wear them.

♥ I then got myself a wildestranger and we saw Fall Out Boy, resulting in much, much joy. Pyrotechnics! Faily handclapping (mine)! Patrick regaining speaking privileges (and being all kinds of adorable)! Pete being, well, Pete! Insane jealousy of Joe's hair! Gabeisms! Hey Monday were also adorable and pocket-sized and I think I'd like to keep them. I was particularly taken with the bassist (I think) skipping about the stage. Just not enough boys skip these days.

♥ Patrick's thighs. I fully admit to not really getting what the fuss was about before, but I have spent the past day or so thinking of little else.

♥ Many ugly new scarves. I blame Ryan Ross (as is so often the case). A particularly fantastic one is orange and purple and has anchors AND fish on it. It's amazing.

♥ I can't stop playing the Fall Out Boy Trail. It's just not getting any less funny the more I play it.

At last I have a fully-functioning laptop! I could just hug it if only it weren't so unyielding, but hey, I might just do it anyway. It has new innards and has even come back clean! And takes less than a billion years to start up! It's amazing!

So yes, what have I missed? How are you all? I hope everything has been behaving itself nicely and no one else has grown a silly moustache whilst I've not been looking? There have been concerts, weddings and piercings during my abrupt internet hiatus, which I'm sure I'll ramble on about once I stop being excited and caught up on things. For now I think I need to go and look at some stupid faces. Oh internet, how I've missed you!

♥

Oh, I'm so, so tired and yet still full of squee. Work was just not happening today.

( Sectus, DH (SPOILERS), and general love )

A huge, huge Happy Birthday to shaggydogstail! I hope you have had a brilliant day, with as much cake as you can possibly manage!

♥

Just sneaking in to say that I'm horribly behind with everything due to spending last week feebly trying to fight off a particularly obnoxious cold, but I shall try and catch up on any fic/stuff I might have missed. I've spent so long in pyjamas recently that I really feel they need incinerating, but at least I'm back to being mostly snot-free now, which is definitely a good thing.

Just dropping in to say that The Meeting of Doom is now over, and hopefully things will return to normality. The big meeting/presentation seemed to go ok (although I haven't had feedback from my supervisors yet as I spend this afternoon in hiding, but at least I didn't blind anyone with the laser pointer and my shaky hand!). I'm just so, so full of relief. I don't think I've ever worked so hard in my life! After too many early starts, late finishs and weekends, I'm just looking forward to a nice, long sleep! Terribly rock and roll, I know. I'm sorry for having to abandon LJ, and if I've missed fic or anything, if you let me know then I will try my best to get there. I've missed you all terribly, and hope that the past few weeks have been good to you. ♥

Also, a huge happy birthay to archduck! I'm sorry I missed it, and I hope it was a fantastic one!

A James/Regulus ficlet, shamelessly set in the seaside café AU, because who doesn't want a day out at the seaside? Regulus seems to be giving in more and more these days. :)

( a little sea air is good for the soul )

A randomly in-denial James/Regulus drabbley bit.

( They haven’t so much as looked at each other for a week )

Some more James/Regulus for stellastars. I'm afraid that Regulus was obviously feeling emo, as there is less frolicking in the snow and more angsting (in the snow). Still, I hope you like it. ♥

( Winter turns everything into a fairytale )

For fleshdress. This originally intended to be angsty, but instead turned out rather soppy (for James/Reg, anyway) and doesn't involve Knockturn Alley in the slightest. I'm sorry. ♥

( They lie together in silence )

Some silly James/Regulus, in which Regulus is rather forgetful about a few very important things.

( because a desk is rather bare without a pretty-boy over it )

Title: A Defeat of Sorts
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: James/Regulus
Notes: Prompt 6 for the todieavirgin inaugural challenge: Regulus keeps having fights in corridors with James. Regulus tries to provoke James into fucking him (as James has done with Sirius?), but things turn out to be less violent than he expected. Regulus' first time. Kind of.
Huge thanks to fleshdress for the read through, and without whom there would be no James/Regulus. Also thanks to wildestranger for not minding this being so horribly late.

( They’ve done this a thousand times before )

For shaggydogstail. ♥ I'm sorry, I know you asked for James and Sirius (and not James/Sirius) and breaking noises, but James does like to play with the Black brothers, and so it's kind of Sirius/James, with mentions (of the porny variety) of James/Regulus. I'm thinking I need to castrate James before I'm allowed to write him again.

( You shouldn’t let your mouth hang open like that, Padfoot )

For fleshdress, who is lovely and asked for James/Kadaj/Regulus. It turned out not nearly as cracky as I thought (although the threesome demands that it be at least a little!), and rather surprisingly gentle. ♥

I also must apologise to everyone who asked for non-Regulus ficlets. He does demand that he gets written first, and also, I tried to write some R/S and it sucked more than Arthur's souped-up Dyson. I'm sorry, but hopefully I'll get there.

( and the seaside cafe gets another visitor )

For stellastars, who foolishly let me choose between writing her Arthur/Muggle Artefacts, or James/Regulus.

I chose both. Kind of.

I should warn for extreme silliness, spandex and references to the Weasleys in a bedroom-situation.

( The cheering in the arena reached fever pitch )

For secondsilk, who asked for some angry (but not petulant) cheerleader!Regulus. It's James/Reg, I'm afraid, as James will not put up with Regulus running around as a cheerleader and not belonging to him. :)

It's quite porny once again, and a little rough at the start and rather soppy at the end, just to warn you. Sorry.

( It's been three days since Regulus flounced off mid blow-job )

balefully? I know you asked for Remus/James, but this kind of came out instead. Sorry. It's for you if you want it, although I won't mind if you don't because it's not very nice, and as well as Remus/James, also has some James/Sirius, Remus/Sirius and quite a bit of James/Regulus. I'm surprised the boy hasn't worn himself out, quite frankly. It's fairly porny, and James is a bit of a bastard, I'm afraid.

( James is filled with seething, righteous anger )

For sethkyne_blue, who very reasonably asked for glitterboy!Sirius with an "interested" James. I'm sorry, but James decided he'd take over and turn it into a public announcement about his sexuality. ♥

( he's straight, by the way )

I kind of wrote almost-porn again. Sorry. So, some naughtiness in the form of James/Regulus, with a side of voyeur!Sirius, for jlarinda. ♥

( Regulus Black is a naughty boy )